what is collision LED on HUB

sandeepjaipur · Mar 8, 2006

Hello,

I have small network "around 6 computer" with win2k, when i transfer the file from one computer to another computer, the HUB LED for both the computer are flashing and also this collision LED flashing;

What this collision LED indicating.

and i feel that the transfer speed is little bit slow. Kindly suggest the solutions;

Can i change the RJ45 Connectors with Good Quality "Expensive" connectors " as one network Eng. suggest me"

thanks in advance.

Sandeep

StumpedTechy · Mar 8, 2006

Collision LED is just that... If 2 or more ports have a collision at the same time the LED will light up.

The first thing I would do is if I was using a hub I would change over to a switch instead.

After that if its still slow I would indicate ALOT more information about your network.

Squashman · Mar 8, 2006

StumpedTechy said:
Collision LED is just that... If 2 or more ports have a collision at the same time the LED will light up.

The first thing I would do is if I was using a hub I would change over to a switch instead.

After that if its still slow I would indicate ALOT more information about your network.

And make sure that all of your Network Cards are 100mb. Also make sure you are using Cat5 cable for your network as well.

Bob Cerelli · Mar 8, 2006

Collisions are complete normal on a Ethernet network.

Basically it indicates that two computers were trying to send traffic at the same time. Since this can't be done with Ethernet, there is a collision. One backs of and waits, and then resends. Happens all the time. That's one reason why even on a 10 MB network you really only get 3-5.

what is collision LED on HUB

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